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I'm Jacob Shughrue

Data, Analytics, Insights, Automation

About Me

Director of AI Transformation at American Express
Within the Finance organization, I help drive the adoption of AI to streamline and strengthen finance workflows. I lead a scrum team of 25+ engineers to design and deploy custom AI solutions. We’re currently building semantic layers that power ChatGPT-based agents, enabling accurate, governed connections into core Finance applications.
Prior to this role, I worked in data governance, FP&A, and as a Power BI Developer, giving me a strong foundation in financial planning, analytics, and data quality.
Outside of work, I’m studying for my Master’s in Data Science from Boston University, deepening my understanding of statistics and AI/ML modeling techniques.

My Skills

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Data Visualization

I'm a certified Power BI analyst with a passion for data visualization. My love towards dashboards and analytics started at Sunbrella where I led the adoption of Power BI to modernize and improve our data storytelling across the company.
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Data Management

I'm experienced in SQL and comfortable writing complex queries to understand or modify the contents of a database. Throughout my career, I've used a number of different SQL editors query languages, most recently using Hive to query millions of rows of data for a project.
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Data Analytics

I'm an Excel power user - Excel is a fundamental tool of my skillset. I've been Excel certified since 2016 when I was hired as a tutor while attending Elon University's Love School of Business, studying Finance and Data Analytics.
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Programming

Both in the office and at home I love that feeling of writing a quick python script that helps automate a task or make life easier. I am always working to keep up with the latest trends in the data science space, or become a bit more pythonic.
Data Manipulation & Visualization

Harry's Case Study

An end-to-end analysis of Harry’s sales data using Python Pandas and Power BI, summarized into a presentation for stakeholders.

Power BI dashboard
Automation

Amex Careers Site Web Scraping

Scrape the contents of American Express’ career site with Python’s Selenium library.

Code for Amex Careers Web Scraping project
Automation

Receipt OCR Scanner

Reads the content off of paper receipts, groups the item and price via clustering, passes the content to a ChatGPT API call for data cleaning, then writes the receipt data to a Postgres data table.

Data Integrity Analysis

Data Profiling in Tableau

Examine the quality of source data by checking for data completeness, data inconsistencies, and more.

Tableau dashboard of data
Predictive Analysis

Time Series Market Forecasting

Predict future market movements via additive regression in Facebook’s Prophet library. An analysis in R.

Graphs of data for Time Series project

Education & Certifications

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